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From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Project: FreeOS
Date: 2000/01/13
Date: 2000-01-13T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2000Jan13.081844.1@eisner> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 85jd6g$9qe2@news.cis.okstate.edu

In article <85jd6g$9qe2@news.cis.okstate.edu>, dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu (David Starner) writes:

> Another nice thing about an OS, is that Linux has gone through at least 
> three points where it was broken on different versions of the compiler 
> (bad assembly, illegal aliasing, and abuse of label addressing/inlining). 
> I don't see an Ada OS ever having a problem with abusing the standard like 
> that.

That would be a theoretical OS, but since the discussion started with
a goal of something that would be popular it seems likely people could
not resist the temptation to make it backward compatible with something
else, bringing along that baggage.

I believe the most recently originated operating system that is popular
today is MacOS, dating from 1984.  Perhaps it is OS/400, depending on
when System 34 was created.  Certainly MVS, VMS and Unix are quite a
bit older than 1984.

Larry Kilgallen




  reply	other threads:[~2000-01-13  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-01-12  0:00 Project: FreeOS Alfred Hilscher
2000-01-12  0:00 ` Gautier
2000-01-12  0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-01-13  0:00 ` Juergen Pfeifer
2000-01-13  0:00   ` Preben Randhol
2000-01-13  0:00     ` Ted Dennison
2000-01-14  0:00       ` Alfred Hilscher
2000-01-14  0:00         ` Ted Dennison
2000-01-13  0:00   ` David Starner
2000-01-13  0:00     ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
2000-01-13  0:00       ` Ted Dennison
2000-01-13  0:00         ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-01-13  0:00           ` Ted Dennison
2000-01-13  0:00         ` Florian Weimer
2000-01-13  0:00           ` Ted Dennison
2000-01-15  0:00             ` Florian Weimer
2000-01-17  0:00               ` Terry Sikes
2000-01-13  0:00         ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
2000-01-14  0:00   ` Alfred Hilscher
2000-01-14  0:00     ` Preben Randhol
2000-01-14  0:00       ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-01-18  0:00         ` Charles Hixson
2000-01-18  0:00           ` David Starner
2000-01-19  0:00           ` Preben Randhol
2000-01-19  0:00             ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-01-19  0:00               ` Preben Randhol
2000-01-19  0:00               ` Mario Klebsch
2000-01-20  0:00             ` Bryce Bardin
2000-01-22  0:00               ` Chris Morgan
2000-01-14  0:00       ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-01-16  0:00         ` Preben Randhol
2000-01-18  0:00         ` Charles Hixson
2000-01-14  0:00       ` Alfred Hilscher
2000-01-15  0:00 ` Michael Garrett
     [not found]   ` <vhi3drwe773.fsf@grotte.ifi.uio.no>
2000-01-17  0:00     ` Bill Greene
2000-01-17  0:00       ` Brian Rogoff
2000-01-18  0:00         ` Aidan Skinner
2000-01-19  0:00           ` Jon S Anthony
2000-01-19  0:00         ` Jon S Anthony
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